Watch: Milk & Biscuits – Hairstyles [Best Fit Premiere]

Featuring members of (prepare yourself) Brakes, Restlesslist, Clowns, Muddy Suzuki and Field Music, as well as art lecturer/published poet Gary Goodman, come Brighton dream poppers Milk & Biscuits.

Although now surrounded by a pretty impressive supporting cast, the band’s intention wasn’t always as inclusive. Initially the collaborative bedroom recording project of Matthew Davies and Max Erle, the duo first started making music above the pub owned by Davies, reportedly “the smallest pub in Brighton”. Since then they’ve joined locals Big Salad Records to release mini-album Balcony Times in 2011, and have garnered a high profile fanbase that counts Marc Riley and Edith Bowman amongst its numbers, in the lead up to first release proper Spirit Nap.

They couldn’t have timed this first taste of the album better. ‘Hairstyles’ is a track brimming with a springtime optimism, throwing its doors open to the sun with a gleeful grin, and their peddling of simple, pretty pop. It keeps itself securely on the right side of saccharine, with an twee aesthetic that seems genuinely carefree and pleasant. With a video that looks like pretty much the best day ever, they’re happy not to take themselves too seriously. As the temperature rises, 2013 is bound to involve a lot more fun with these ragamuffins with their playful summer vibes.

In the vein of the song’s refrain – “haircuts don’t define me like you do” – we shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, so get to know these guys in the video below. Warning: it contains (prepare yourself again) finger painting, eating loads of donuts, consequently jammy fingers, squirrel feeding, ice cream machines with ALL THE SAUCES, elephant shaped topiary, trumpets, wearing about eleven coats in what looks suspiciously like the corner of Rokit, tropical fish, cocktails in fun glasses, tambourines, instagram filters, caricatures, gold-keyed hand organs, bobble hats, balloons, the fair, (vocalist Davies as) a vinyl DJ with a 70s barnet, wall art, and a bird mobile. If you dislike fun, it’s probably not for you.

‘Hairstyles’ is released on Big Salad Records on 3 June. Catch the band supporting British Sea Power on their current UK tour.